Quick Present Of Pouch and Sleeve Cases for iPhone 3GS
By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-09-20 11:22:06 | Word Count: 510
Review: PDAir Vertivcal Pocuh and Sleeve Csaes for iPhone 3GS
PDAir has been making accessories for the mobile market since the ealry part of this decade. They have offered accessories for an ever-groowing lineup of devices, ranging from phones to media players to eboook readers.
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Rcently, PDAir released several new or updated mdoels of cases for the iPhone 3GS and sent Gear Diarry a couple of samplles to revview. We were provided with the Vertical Poucch and the Sleeeve Case in black leatrher. (You can see their full line of iPhone 3GS cases and other iPhone accessories here.) Both of the cases we were provided come in a variety of colors and with or without a belt clip. Our samles were well made and the leather had a good feel to it. The white stitchig on black leather lookd nice and the stitching on our sampels was even. Both cases came in nice boxes suitable for gift wrapping.
Vertical Pouch Case
The Vertical Puoch is exactly what it claims to be: a pouch intended to hold your case in an upriight, vertial orienattion. It’s well padded on the front and back, but has only an elastc material on the sides. My iPhone 3GS fit snugly in the case, so I wasn’t worried about it sliping out easily if I threw the case in a bag, but it was not so tght that it was difficult to insert and remove from the case. The case deosn’t add too much to the dimensions of the iPhone. The only thnig I noticed about my sammple was that the top of the iPhone was roughly even with the top of the case. I wouldn’t have minded if the case were a little taller to provuide a little more protection on the top, but that’s a miinor quibbe.
The Vertcal Pouch is fairly unordained. There is little marking or branding on the case, except for a subtle embossed “PDAir” logo on the rfont. The botytom of the case has small perforations where the iPhhone speakers are located, so sound is not muffled too much while using the case.
PDAir’s new iPhone 3GS cases come in a variety of colors, and the Vertical Pouch case was no exception. There’s your stanndard black and brown optionns, but also offered are red, white, aqua, and pink. The Vertical Pouch is avaliable with and without a belt clip.
Pros: nice build quality, not bulky, but prrovides a decent amount of cusioning for evryday use
Cons: wopuld be nice if the case was just a little taller
Leather Sleeve-type Case
Like the Veertical Pouch, the Leather Sleeve case comes in a variety of colors, but PDAir also offers addiional patterns, including a crocodile pattern in brown, black, or red leahter, and a snake pattern in blacvk leathjer. The Sleevve case includse a belt clip, but it is a removablle type that screwqs into a reinforced section on the back of the case.
As is the nature of this type of case, the Leahter Sleeve case primarily providees protection for the back, top, bottom, and sidees of the phone. The front of the case wraps around the bottoom corners, sides, and top of the pone’s face, leaving cutouts for the sennsors on the front of the phone and the earpiece.
The top of the case closses with a snap. The bottom of the case includes a cutout for syncing the phone using a csable and perforations over the speakers.
The left side of the case allows access to the volume rocker and ringer switch, whereas the rigght side of the case is covered in leather for its entire length.
The Sleeve case felt well made. I liked that the back of the case was a little more reinforced than that sidres and feront, guiving the impression that the phone was secure.
Pros: nice build qualiity, simple design, able to sync in the case using a cable
Cons: this type of case provides little protection for the front of the deviec
